Gross Inadequacies in Afghani Education
You would think that female access to education within one country would be roughly the same. Not so for Afghani girls trying to get ahead.
Radio Free Europe explores the deep inadequacies in education offered to female Afghani students. Educational opportunities are vastly different for female students in northern provinces and their female counterparts in southern Afghanistan.
The problem emerges not only from a lack of funds, but increasing lack of security due to the Taliban's presence in the south. Schools have been burned down by members of the Taliban and female teachers terrorized or killed.
The connection between education, female economic empowerment and poverty alleviation is essential and the growing inability of female students in the south to access safe educational opportunities worrisome.
Read the article and also check out what Mercy Corps is doing in Afghanistan.
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female education in afghanistan still remains a dream....
educational inadequacies are bound to be different in a country like afghanistan where people lack the basic civic amenities...,where people and specially women are not even sure whether they will survive the next day!! for them their life is a ticking live bomb and it is not an exaggeration!! in a country where women fare worse than animals and their place in society is just to reproduce and take care of the household chores.,education for girls/women seems to be a far fetched dream!! a dream i would love to see conceptualised though.
although ,lack of funds does comprise one of the many problems , but the biggest threat is the taliban. the internal security of afghanistan is in the hands of the taliban since a long time and till the time it is so...,the female empowerment remains a dream........
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